I accidentally pulled up one of my Queen Anne’s Thistles (Cirsium canum) and I discovered the tubers were quite like the tuberous thistle (Cirsium tuberosum)
I neither use sugar nor do I have a freezer. My favourite way of preserving fruit is drying and the quickest way of drying fruit in an oven is by making fruit leather…simply boil the fruit to sterilise and mashing as you boil, then pour into an oven tray and dry for a few hours at about 40C!
Have just finished a batch of redcurrants (rips) and raspberries (bringebær). The raspberries were both wild red raspberries, an old Norwegian yellow (gulbringebær) and a cultivar “White Russian”
See last year’s blog on raspberry / bilberry leather here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=13187
12th August Added pictures of leather made from cloudberries, bilberries and wild raspberries!
Sitting in the garden working this morning and suddenly a flock of 9 grey herons (hegre) flew past
A flock of herons is sometimes known as a scattering of herons! (alternatively, a siege, or sedge)
Platycodon grandiflorus (balloon flower), an important vegetable in the Far East, is just starting to flower in the garden. In Korea, it is called doraji. Its root, either dried or fresh, is used in salads and traditional cooked dishes. Young leaves are also used.
See also this video from a doraji farm in Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7OA9AsZAs0
I love these broad curiously shaped leaved woodlanders from the Far East, but, sadly, my shidoke (Parasenecio delphiniifolia), which I found in a supermarket and ate in Japan, disappeared this winter :(
Probably not a good idea to meet much of these due to alkaloids they may contain!
See earlier blog on shidoke here: http://www.edimentals.com/blog/?p=6340
Parasenecio maximowiczianum
Parasenecio maximowiczianum
Parasenecio spp #1….This one is about 2m high, but I don’t know its name…
I’ve never seen sprouting bulbils on hardnecked garlic before!
I’ve never seen sprouting bulbils on hardnecked garlic before!
Allium flavum
Allium hookeri var muliense
Allium cyaneum
Allium “Hammer” (Allium cernuum x stellatum?) This plant was found at Hammer Planteskole (nursery) in Stjørdal….I selected this one from Aliium cernuum sales plants as it looked different from the normal flowered plants
Allium “Hammer” (Allium cernuum x stellatum?) This plant was found at Hammer Planteskole (nursery) in Stjørdal….I selected this one from Aliium cernuum sales plants as it looked different from the normal flowered plants
A second Allium wallichii
This broad-leaved selection came from a seednmix of Allium senescens x nutans from Mark McDonough
Norrlands Onion (Norrlandløk) – Allium nutans x angulosum was found in gardens in northern Sweden in the 1970s (one of the 80 in my book)
A nice walk at Vennafjellet just over the border in Selbu kommune on Monday! We started at Svendalstjørna,walked over to the old seter (mountain farm) at Engavollen and back via the top of Faseknipen.
Walked up from Svendalstjørna, seen below here
Yellow water lilies
Molte (cloudberry) were ripe, but not many to be found!
Molte (cloudberry)
Molte (cloudberry)
A common hawker dragonfly patrolling
Heather (lyng) in full flower
:)
On the way down to Engtjørna, the boundary over to Malvik kommune goes through the lake!
Engavollen seter
Engavollen seter
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) growing on the turf roof
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) growing on the turf roof
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum)
Crowberry / krekling (Empetrum nigrum) was an important edible berry for Arctic peoples
A club moss
Alpine lady’s mantle (Alchemilla alpina), also on the roof!
Willows on this roof!
Clouds can give interesting effects!
Sitting down for lunch, an Arran Brown (fløyelsesringvinge) was patrolling a spruce tree near us!
…and this common hawker dragonfly landed in the same tree..
…and this common hawker dragonfly landed in the same tree..
My first bilberries of the year (blåbær)
There were a few fungi, including this Russula spp
